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Author Topic: Prime Minister Fillon's point on "European consiousness", v. Turkey's claims...  (Read 4228 times)
HugoHegelMiltonCesarPlato
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« on: May 22, 2009, 11:12:51 AM »

Well done the conclusion of French Prime Minister Fillon's speech, where the need to create a "European consciousness", based on EU's history, culture, values of human rights/democracy, and identity, clearly contradicts US chiefs Clinton-Bush-Obama's pressure to impose Turkey inside the EU.

Something that would obviously nullify European Citizen's potential to build a strong, democratic and well developed common future.

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....    The substantial reasons for that, were  made crystal-clear by France's Prime Minister Francois FILLON :

- "These (2009) EU Elections are not like others. To overcome the current Crisis we need a Political Europe with a strong Will, able to act, innovate and change things.. A main question is  : Shall we let EU go into a slow routine, or will we give her the guiding tools that will make her able to succesfully face the Global competition"?

- "That's why, vis-a-vis the other side of the Ocean (i.e. USA, which always pushes to impose Turkey into the EU, from Clinton to Bush and Obama) we (Europeans) must defend our vision for a Europe which has a substance" :

- "We have a Culture. We have a Cultural Heritage. We have a Civilisation shared with all European countries. Europe has a common Cultural Heritage, a common Culture", Fillon stressed.

- "Europe claims also Moral Values, (i.e. Human Rights, Democracy) which forge our Identity, and outline the limits of this Europe. Humanism, Freedom of Thought, Rule of Law, are European Values. And these Rights are more advanced today in Europe than in the rest of the World, away from EU's borders. The Individual Person is better protected, more recognized in Europe than in other areas of the World."

- "Europe has a Soul, and  must have an Identity. That's why Enlargement must respect some clear Rules about its Borders. Europe cannot enlarge endlessly. .. Europe must be organized around these Countries which share its Cultural Heritage, share its History, and share its Values" (i.e. Human Rights).

 - "That's why our refusal to admit Turkey in Europe, is not a mark of hostility vis a vis this big country, .. But this refusal expresses our need to make a European Consciousness emerge inside clearly defined borders. And a European Consciousness will never exist if Turkey is inside the EU !", he concluded, largely applauded.


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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2009, 04:44:11 PM »

=> Good synthesis, indeed.  Smiley
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